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A word on Jazzmessengers - my experiences with them have been consistently great.

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Yep. 'Journey To Enligntenment' and 'Let This Melody Ring On' have always been the gems for me. 'Black Love' is less than the sum of it's parts, has always sounded underrehearsed to my ears, though I do like it. Norman Connors' version of "Mother of the Future" on the otherwise tepid 'Slewfoot' shreds Garnett's version (Garnett does play on the Connors version). The last two 70's Muse albums by Garnett don't really cut it at all compared to the first three. His comeback stuff in the 90's on Muse and High Note is very strong, but in a different style, lacking the uniqueness of the 70's recordings. Time and place.

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I own a few boxes from this series and several of the OAS sets, and the sound quality difference is night and day. OAS is clearly just whatever was already laying around, and this series has wonderful remastering, at least on the boxes I have (Joni Mitchell and early Neil Young).

I like those WB sets, have the ones they did for Joni Mitchell and for the first four Neil Young albums. Nice sound great prices nice packaging (though no notes).

Also my first thought.

"Black Messiah" and those Riversides are apples and oranges. Glad for both, but they're totally different things.

glad to hear this!

I really liked his work,but have never heard this session, so look forward to it.

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Fascinating. I love Mary Lou Williams, and that makes perfect sense since she was so able to bridge musical generations (and also explains what that cut would be my favorite). Bernie Senensky indeed. If the disc were less expensive, I'd go buy it right now. I second the recommendation for "The Producers", a brilliant movie.

Grossman was 19 years old in 1970. He did OK under the circumstances. I've never really been a fan of those Fillmore shows or the stuff that became Live-Evil, much prefer the studio stuff from that era. I also like Fortune best in the post-Shorter bands. But almost always found the bands to be less than the sum of their parts in that time. Granted, the parts were awesome, so it would have been hard to meet expectations. I really like the Grossman/Liebman front line on the Elvin Jones Lighthouse set (everybody on tenor sounded great with Jones in those years - Liebman, Grossman, Foster, Farrell, Coleman, all of them).

Hoping for those Harold Land titles with Bobby Hutcherson.

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"There's A Place" is my favorite Beatles song ever. Love it both muscially and lyrically. And it didn't even make the (unnecessary) cut from 'Introducing The Beatles' to 'The Early Beatles'.

Isn't it quite natural that tastes differ? And exaggeration sometimes helps to convey a message too ... Though it was spurred in part by one of the Beatles' (Ringo??) much later admission that they indeed had gone wildly overboard with all their Guru and psych stuff in the second part of the 60s. Of course. I actually thought my previous post agreed with you!

I also prefer their earlier stuff. I saw them on Ed Sullivan, my first album purchase at 10 years old was 'Beatles 65' (my first 45 purchase was "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " by the Righteous Brothers, so I got THAT right!). I love and own plenty of "that screwy, weird Sitar, Oriental, pot smoking, high flying, zonked out stuff", it's my go-to music, but then and now I prefer it by other groups, such as the Jefferson Airplane, early Santana, original Love, etc. I had and have the later Beatles stuff, but rarely listen to it.

Yep, and they'll get it, too.

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Steve Grossman is among my least favorite 1970-75 Miles saxophonists, but I second this - he sounded a lot better on the April and June stuff that was not officially released. Where I did like the Liebman/Grossman combo was with Elvin Jones.

Absolutely. I love Mel Torme, his Bethlehem stuff in particular. And, ftr, just as you said you're tough on piano trios, I really don't like male jazz singers. Same here. Torme on Bethlehem is about as good as that genre gets.